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Quotes About Disguise

The world turns and the world changes, But one thing does not change. In all of my years, one thing does not change, However you disguise it, this thing does not change: The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.
~ T.S. Eliot
Were all these castle folk in their ornate finery no more than confused souls hiding inside costumes, as the hard shells of snails protected the helpless, naked things that lived within them?
~ Tad Williams
Beneath the appearance of normality he is strong as Goliath, scaly and supple as a serpent.
~ Tad Williams
My felicitations," he said himself aloud, and in Mercurio's tones. "You have got away.
~ Tanith Lee
The long hennaed brows rose like the wings of angels. His look, even in disguise, was no quintessentially Cyrionesque that Roilant was defeated by it, and grinned.
~ Tanith Lee
A man who was not who he appeared to be needed to be ever mindful of who he really was.
~ Ted Bell
The temptation to forget is woven into the fabric of these... costumes.
~ Ted Dekker
I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
~ Tennessee Williams
Directness often disguised as much as it revealed, and was a marvelous defense.
~ Julie Anne Long
What you see, isn't always what you get
~ Julie Anne Peters
I throw him two bones: a smile and a nod. Both lies.
~ Julie Anne Peters
The surface didn't always tell the full story. A carefully constructed façade could hide a myriad of secrets.
~ Julie Ortolon
Oh, las máscaras. Uno tiende siempre a pensar en el rostro que esconden, pero en realidad lo que cuenta es la máscara, que sea ésa y no otra. Dime qué máscara usas y te diré qué cara tienes.
~ Julio Cortazar
Oh, le maschere. Tutti tendono sempre a pensare al volto che nascondono, ma in realtà ciò che conta è la maschera, perchè proprio questa e non un'altra. Dimmi che maschera porti e ti dirò chi sei
~ Julio Cortazar
Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a bady's beshattered diaper, as one might pinch a recently benutted condom. You glance at the offending passages. Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.
~ Junot Diaz
Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a baby's beshatted diaper, as one might pinch a recently benutted condom. You glance at the offending passages. Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.
~ Junot Diaz
She took off her glasses and put them in my hand. 'You know, without these, I can't see anything. What's funny is that it's like no one else can see me either. Isn't it strange? I kind of feel invisible.
~ Justin Cronin
You're not Shade Vassily,' the Doctor said. 'You just think you are.' And he reached up and took off Repple's face. 'Sorry.' He stepped aside, allowing Repple to see his own reflection.
~ Justin Richards
Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself.
~ Justo L. González
Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself. IRENAEUS OF LYONS
~ Justo L. González
The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms
~ Kamila Shamsie
The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.
~ Julia Leigh
When you've got a mask on, you're kind of invincible. It's almost like nobody can see you, and you can do what you want to do without consequences.
~ Jim Root
Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.
~ Graham Elliot